Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-31
would, sent word: "No, I vii! not come.

DIS With Gil ltS
fight your own battle all through, and
you shall have the victory. On, it is a
battle worth fighting. Two monarchs of
old fought duel, Charles V. and Francis,
and the stakes we're Kingdoms, Milan and
Burgundy. You fight with sin, and the
stake is heaven or hell.
Do not get the fatal idea that you are a
genius, and that, therefore, there is no
need of close application. 1t is here
where multitudes fail. The great curse
of this age is the geniuses, men with
enormous self conceit and egotism, and
uo,hipg else. l had rather be an OK than
an eagle; plain, and plodding, and useful,
rather than high fling and good for
nothing but to pick out the eyes of car
casses. Extraordinary capacity without
use is extraordinary failure. There Is no
hope for that person who begins life re-
solved to live by his wits, for the probs-
bllity is he has not any. 1t WAS not safe
for Adam, even IN his unfalIen state, TO
have nothing to do, and, therefore, God
commanded him to be farmer ard horti-
culturist. He was to dress the garden and
keep it, and had he and his wife obeyed
the divine Injunction and been at work,
they would not have been saunterlng I'M
der the trees, and hungeriDg after that
fruit which destroyed them and their pos
terlty; proof positive for all sges 10 come
that those who do not attend to their bus
mess are sure to get into mischief. do
not know that the prOdigal in scripture
would ever have been reclaimed had he
not given up his idle haoits and gone to
feeding swine for living. go to the
ant, tnuu sluggsrd, consider her ways and
be wise, which having no overSeer or
guide provideth n-r food in the summer
ana Ssthereth her meat in the harvest"
The devil does not so often attack the
man who is busy with the pen, end the
book, and the trowel, aud the saw, and
the hammer. He is afraid of those weap-
ons. Bat woe to that man whom this
roaring lion meets with his hands in his
pocket. Do not demand that your toll
always be elegant, and cieanly aud re-
! fined There is certain amount OF
drudgery through which We must ali pass,
whatever be cur occupation. You know
how men are sentenced, a certain number
to years of prison, and after they have
suffered sod " Jrked out the time, then
they are allowed to 60 free. And SO it is
with all of US GOD passed on US the sen
tence: "B, the sweat of thy brow shalt
thou est bread" We must endure our
time of drudgery, and then, after while,
we will be allowed to go into comparative
liberty. We must De willing to endure
the sentence. We oil know what druid
gerry Is connected with the beginning OF
any trade or profession, but this does
not continue oil our lives, If it be the stu
dents, or the merchants, or the mechan-
ic's, life. l know you have at she begin
ming many hard time, out after while
these things Will become easy. You will
be your own master Gods sentence will
be satisf d. You will be
DISCHARGED FROM PRISON.
Bless God that you have brain to
think, and hands to work, end feet to
walk with, for in your constant activity,
o young man, is one of your strongest
defenses. Put your trust in God and dc
your level best. ThaS caild had it right
when the horses ran away with the Jad
Of wood and he sat upon it: When
asked il ne was frightened he said: "No.
| prayed to God and hung en- like &
beaver"
, Again, profound respect for the Sab
bsth will be to the young man powerful
preserVatiYe against evu. God has
thrust into the toll and fatigue OF life {
recreative dsy, when the soul is es-
!
notion OF a wild Drained reformer, but an
institution established at the beginning.
God has made natural and moral laws sc
harmonious that the body ss we'll as the
soul demands this institution Oui
bodies are seven day clocks, that must be
wound up as often as that, or they will
run doWn. Failure must come sooner or
later TO the man VINO breaks the Sab oath
Inspiration has called it the Lords day,
and he who deVotes it to the world il
guilty of robbery. God will not let tbs
siQ % UNPUBLISHED either in this " rid OF
the world to come. This is the state
ment of man who had broken this di-
vine enactment:
81 WAS engaged in manufacturing OF
, the Lehigh river. On the Sabbath l useC
to rest, but never regarded God in it
. One beautiful Sabbath, when the noise
was all hushed, end the day was all tina
! Iovliness could make it, I sat down OF
= my piazza and went TO work inventing 1
: W SHUTTLE. l neither stopped to ga
. nor drink ill the sun went down. BY tia
, time had the invention completed. TIT
next morning j exhibited 1t, boosted o
. my days work, and was applauded. TIL
shuttle was tried and worked well, bu
that Sabbath days work cost me $50, O0e
D We bTsnched out and enlarged, and the
} CURSE OF HEAVEN
. was uoon me- from tlat day onward"
Z While the divine frown must rest upol
G rim who tramples upon this statute
S Coos special favor will be upon tina
s young man who scrupulously observes it
, This day, properly observed, will throw
8 hellowed influence over all the week
= The song and sermon and sanctuary vii
: hold back from presumptuous scenes
: That young man who begins the duties
d life with either secret or open disrespec
. of the holy day, venture to prophesy
8 will meet with no prominent successes
:, Gods curse will fall upon his ship, hi
z store, his Office, his studio, his body an
3 his soul. The way of the wicked 81
8 turneth upside down In one OF the oil
9 fables it was said that wonderful chile
!, was born in Bagdsd. and g msgicisl
n could hear his footsteps 5000 miles away
&. But can hear in the footsteps Of tina
d young Nan on his way TO the house c
= worship this morning, step not only OF
n lifetime of usefulness, but the comm
d step of eternal joys of heaven yet mil
Il lions Of miles away.
0 Again, s noble ideal and confident ex
s pectAtion of approximEting to 1t will in